in Brown's Sound, S Onslow County. Probably named for Jabez Spooner, landowner in the vicinity by 1743. Sometimes mistakenly called Schooners Bay.

rises in S Carteret County and flows S into Bogue Sound.

rises in NE Person County and flows NW into Maho Creek. Said to have received its name because it is so shallow that anyone wanting water from it would have to use a spoon to dip it up.

community on Currituck Sound, S Currituck County. Formerly Hog Quarter, but renamed when a post office was est. there about 1920 (spot is a fish that is caught locally).

on Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 5,900-6,000.

rises in W Avery County and flows E into Roaring Creek.

community in SW Harnett County. Once the center of a lumber and naval-stores industry. Alt. approx. 330.

See Norman.

former town in N Rockingham County on Smith River. Settled about 1813, when James Burnett est. gristmill at falls of Smith River. Site of cotton mill founded by future governor John M. Morehead; later operated by his son J. Turner Morehead. Known first as Splashy from the water thrown up by a waterwheel at a local mill; name later changed in 1890 to the more sophisticated Spray. Inc. 1951; merged with Leaksville and Draper in 1967 to form Eden, which see. Alt. 625.

rises in NE Swain County and flows N into Bunches Creek.